Man Who Defrauded Commissioners Of Police Jailed For 2 Years

A man who defrauded two police commissioners has been
jailed. Mohammed Isah was sentenced by an Ikeja
Magistrates’ Court, to two years’ imprisonment for
defrauding the Anambra and Ondo states Commissioners
of Police of N154,000.
While the Anambra CP was duped of N150,000, his
counterpart in Ondo State was swindled of N4,000.
The court held that Isah was guilty of the offence and
handed him the sentence without option of fine.
The convict was said to have operated in Anambra, Ondo
and Lagos states between June and December 7, 2015,
before he was arrested by the police in Lagos.
The Katsina-born convict had gone to the Lagos State
Police Command’s X-Squad Department in Ikeja to
complain that some policemen attached to the Rapid
Response Squad collected N188, 200 from him.
A police officer, ACP Edward Ajogun, who had served in
the Ondo Police Command before he was transferred to
Lagos in September, reportedly met him making the
complaint.
It was learnt that Ajogun had witnessed a similar scenario
of the convict framing some policemen in Ondo with the
sole aim of getting compensated.
Isah, who was immediately arrested, had reportedly
implicated policemen in Ondo and Anambra states by
taking the number plates of their patrol vehicles to the
state police headquarters on the claims that they
extorted money from him.
It was said that the Anambra Commissioner of Police had
paid him N150,000 after he alleged that the cops from
the command swindled him of N270,000.
Isah, who had used a pseudonym, Musa Mulamba, also
accused a team of six policemen on patrol in Akure, Ondo
State, of extorting N140, 000 from him. But the state
CP gave him N4, 000 for reporting the matter to the
command.
Our correspondent learnt that the allegation led to the
dismissal of the six cops.
Isah had on December 12 pleaded guilty to the three
counts bordering on fraud when he was arraigned before
the court’s Chief Magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Olayinka.
The magistrate consequently sentenced him to two years
in prison for each of the three counts, adding that the
jail terms would run concurrently without option of fine.